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Carbon hoofprint: Cows supplemented with rbST reduce agriculture's environmental impact
Jun 30, 2008 |
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Milk goes green: Cows that receive recombinant Bovine Somatotropin (rbST) make more milk, all the while easing natural resource pressure and substantially reducing environmental impact, according to a Cornell University study ...
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Hewlett Packard to buy 3Com for $2.7B
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(AP) -- Hewlett-Packard Co. said Wednesday it is buying the 3Com Corp. networking company for $2.7 billion, the latest move by the world's No. 1 personal computer maker to expand into more profitable areas ...
Review: Reporting on Pfizer drug studies fudged
Medicine & Health / Medications
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(AP) -- Analysis of a dozen published studies testing possible new uses for a Pfizer Inc. epilepsy drug found that reporting of the results was often fudged, indicating the medicine worked better than internal company documents ...
Microbial menagerie: Junk food binge alters community of microbes in the gut in less than a day
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Switching from a low-fat, plant-based diet to one high in fat and sugar alters the collection of microbes living in the gut in less than a day, with obesity-linked microbes suddenly thriving, according to ...
Breast Cancer Physicians Have Limited Access to Trained Interpreters
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In a new survey of physicians who treat breast cancer patients, only one-third said they had good access to trained medical interpreters or telephone language-interpretation systems when they needed it. Poor access to interpreters ...
Seeing stars, Proba-2 platform passes its first health check
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Into its second week in orbit, Proba-2's spacecraft platform has proven to be in excellent health. This leaves the way clear for commissioning the many new technology payloads aboard the mini-satellite, ...
Researchers Study Whether Psychosocial Interventions Ease Psoriasis
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine has awarded University of Rochester Medical Center researchers $2.5 million to investigate the impact of psychological interventions on attacks ...
Researchers Discover Use for Carbon Dioxide in Conversion of Biomass Into Biofuel
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Columbia University have successfully discovered a beneficial use for carbon dioxide in the conversion of organic materials, such as grass and bark, into fuel. Their findings ...
UN says hunger stunts some 200 million children
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(AP) -- Nearly 200 million children in poor countries have stunted growth because they don't get enough to eat, according to a new report published by UNICEF Wednesday before a three-day international summit on the problem ...
Drug industry, nonprofits join forces to fight world's neglected diseases
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Drug companies and nonprofit organizations are joining forces to develop new drugs and vaccines to target so-called "neglected" diseases that claim millions of lives in the developing world each year. Those hard-to-treat ...
A bubbling ball of gas (w/ Video)
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
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The Sun is a bubbling mass. Packages of gas rise and sink, lending the sun its grainy surface structure, its granulation. Dark spots appear and disappear, clouds of matter dart up - and behind the whole thing ...
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